Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ballroom. The first eight feet of the ballroom was crammed with the stag line of surplus young men. These young men varied enormously. Mass observation showed that only one in 20 wore hair lotion and that about one in ten had his hair cropped like a convict. The editor of the Tailor and Cutter would have burst into tears over the cut of the tails. Actually two of the men were in dinner jackets. The girls . . . were mostly small and often pretty, could be divided into two lots: those that danced seraphically with their eyes closed, in the middle...
...Editor Wythe Williams of Connecticut's Greenwich Time wrote that a Berlin tipster had taken "a peek through the key-hole or a glance through the transom of the Goebbels sickroom," had seen the Little Doctor bundled in thick bandages- not the usual treatment for intestinal influenza...
...talked-of political clique in 1938 was the "Cliveden Set," the name applied to a group of eminent Britons who frequented Cliveden, Buckinghamshire estate of Lord & Lady Astor. Occasional visitors to Cliveden are Prime Minister & Mrs. Neville Chamberlain; Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England; Geoffrey Dawson,' editor of the potent London Times, which is owned by Lady Astor's brother-in-law. Major John Jacob Astor; and Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Since November Nature has had no editorial chief. Reason: Sir Richard Arman Gregory, editor since 1919, retired. In 45 years of association with Nature, Sir Richard became one of the Grand Old Men of world science. Last week he visited the U. S. as a sort of goodwill envoy of British learning, making speeches on the philosophy of science and its mission in a disquieted world. This week Sir Richard is scheduled to speak at the winter meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Richmond, where he will undoubtedly be lionized...
...week, Sir Richard observed: "All my life I've been so busy writing about things that had to be covered that I haven't had time to write about things that intrigued me most. Now that time has come. I've retired as Nature's editor but I have ambitious plans ahead. I'm just 74. My mother lived to be 90 and my father to 84, and, with good health now, I'm not planning to quit...